kylemittskus

nulli wrote:The key words being pretty much. Excess means more then is required, or needed. Greed is an excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth. So greedy penguins by nature are excessive, and wear two tuxedos.

I don't think I pointed out to or accused you of being unoriginal. Thats must be something you read into, I am not one to put others down

No, no. You didn't. I didn't write that. I'm trying to remember what I wrote that would have been filtered into that. I still I am an un-original person to see how this shirt represents greed. The fact that the penguin is wearing two tuxedos doesnt justify it for me. And someone above said that he is obviously greedy, but I don't see how obvious that is.

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eHalcyon

kylemittskus wrote:No, no. You didn't. I didn't write that. I'm trying to remember what I wrote that would have been filtered into that. I still I am an un-original person to see how this shirt represents greed. The fact that the penguin is wearing two tuxedos doesnt justify it for me. And someone above said that he is obviously greedy, but I don't see how obvious that is.

Well you can sort of think as the penguin as a scrooge or a stereotypical successful business person. The penguin is well off but he's exploiting all the other little penguins to get to the top. He has so much but he refuses to help those who aren't as fiscally advantaged, in fact abusing them to further his gain. He's just greedy and needs more, more, more, and always at the expense of others.

BrIanPir

mjl9320 wrote:It's not a pig clenching money, so I see where the confusion comes from. However, to answer your question- Planting a flag is somewhat synonymous with claiming land. This design illustrates Americans being greedy by claiming land that isn't really theirs. After all, it belongs to the aliens because they were there first, right?

I can't vote for this since it is off-topic. No one looking at this on a shirt would immediately think, "Greed! What a fantastic representation of greed!" l ol Besides, aliens are right up there with pirates and ninjas.

Now that you were so kind as to point out the pig hugging money, I've given my vote to that one instead. Voting helped clear that confusion right up. Any other art you'd like for me to not give my vote to?

eyeslikesugar

Every other time I look at my design, I've got a new vote. =) Despite it being lost in the haze, a few of you still notice. =) Thank you so much for you who voted; it's not many, but each one means an awful lot to me. Thank you, again. =D

eHalcyon

I can't vote for this since it is off-topic. No one looking at this on a shirt would immediately think, "Greed! What a fantastic representation of greed!" l ol Besides, aliens are right up there with pirates and ninjas.

Now that you were so kind as to point out the pig hugging money, I've given my vote to that one instead. Voting helped clear that confusion right up. Any other art you'd like for me to not give my vote to?

I think it's a bonus that it isn't obviously greed. If you think about it though, it is. Sometimes it's nice to have a shirt that takes a little thought.

Then again, it was pretty much obvious to me how this was greed when I first looked at it...

skaght

jenny78

I cannot believe this got rejected because it wasn't 'clear' which plant was supposed to be greedy. Obviously the greed was noticed if you can't even tell which plant was supposed to be the greedy one, and that's the theme this week, is it not?? Yet a cupcake in a bear trap, which is getting pretty close to the fog, gets to stay in the derby. A cupcake in a bear trap? WOW, that shows greed WAY better than this shirt. No, a cupcake in a bear trap doesn't show greed at all, but then again this shirt probabaly wasn't made for a 9 year old and well, a cupcake in a bear trap I can only guess a kid would wear, and that's all woot seems to be targeting in this derby. Although, you can go find a cupcake shirt at any department store for a few bucks if you'd like to buy one for your kid, and call it greed. Then you wouldn't even have to wait for it to ship.

skaght

I think I liked resub 1 better. But I understand why you changed it. What can you do? Woot should give us more time between the announcement and the actual derby to perfect our entries. Still very nice.

kylemittskus

eHalcyon wrote:Well you can sort of think as the penguin as a scrooge or a stereotypical successful business person. The penguin is well off but he's exploiting all the other little penguins to get to the top. He has so much but he refuses to help those who aren't as fiscally advantaged, in fact abusing them to further his gain. He's just greedy and needs more, more, more, and always at the expense of others.

Ok. But he doesn't have that much. He has a suit and a nice walking stick and a monocle. And didn't you say this shirt was ugly anyway? (Which I agree with).

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"Champagne is a very kind and friendly thing on a rainy night." -Isak Dinesen

peppersabaddog

in the world of shirts that isn't even remotely close.
what planet did you claim for yourself that you think this is comparable?
wow i guess that means all those dragons should be disqualified since other people have put a dragon on a shirt before huh?

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